World wrestling body

condemns treatment of

The United World Wrestling on Tuesday threatened to suspend the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI)and

condemned the treatment of wrestlers, who have protesting against WFI's former chief Brij Bhushan

Sharan Singh.

UWW's remarks came on a day when Olympic bronze medallists Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia and

Big showdown and Asian Games medallist Vinesh Phogat, alongside others, nearly drenched their

decorations in Ganga.

The WRESTLERS arrived at Haridwar to submerge their decorations before rancher pioneer Naresh

Tikait worked them out of their choice. The Bharatiya Kisan Association (BKU) president likewise gave

the public authority five days to follow up on the WRESTLERS ' requests.

India’s top wrestlers were demanding the resignation of the Wrestling Federation of India’s president,

Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. They are also demanding his arrest, claiming he has sexually harassed and

abused many female wrestlers.

The wrestlers, who have been protesting in Jantar Mantar since April 23, faced police highhandedness

on Sunday, May 28, when they tried to march to the new Parliament building. The Delhi Police jostled

with the wrestlers and dragged them into police vans before detaining them.

Responding to the turn of events, UWW said, "The occasions of these last days are significantly more

stressing on the grounds that the wrestlers were captured and briefly confined by the police for starting

a walk of dissent. The site where they had been fighting for over a month has likewise been gotten out by the authorities."

"UWW solidly denounces the treatment and detainment of the wrestlers . It communicates its mistake

over the absence of results from the examinations up to this point. UWW inclinations the important

specialists to direct an intensive and unbiased examination concerning the claims," it expressed.